The washing machine, however, has not commented

2:20 AM,
Jan. 5, 2014

Written by

Mark
Kinsler

On the basis of ads that run in this fine newspaper, it occurs to me that we have not taken the traditional, orderly approach to the furnishing of our East Mulberry Street manse. "Three rooms of furniture, only $259.95 down," they suggest.

Not us. Every desk, table and chair has a different story, stories exchanged late at night, when they, the cats and the house got together to discuss old times.

"I," began the dining room table, "was rescued from the Last Chance Corral at Grossman's Bargain Outlet, stacked in pieces next to some rejected sheetrock. Next thing I knew, I was being inexpertly ...